Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that mean
global warming was 0.6±0.2° C during the 20th century and cited anthropogenic increases …

Significant summer warming over the eastern Antarctic Peninsula in the last 50 years has
been attributed to a strengthening of the circumpolar westerlies, widely believed to be …

The two polar regions have experienced remarkably different climatic changes in recent
decades. The Arctic has seen a marked reduction in sea-ice extent throughout the year, with …

Temperature trends across Antarctica over the last few decades reveal strong and
statistically significant warming in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) …

We contrast recent climatic and environmental changes and their causes in the Arctic and
the Antarctic. There are continuing increases in surface temperatures, losses of sea ice and …

Orr, A., D. Cresswell, GJ Marshall, JCR Hunt, J. Sommeria, CG Wang, and M. Light, 2004: A
'low-level'explanation for the recent large warming trend over the western Antarctic …

The surface warming at Faraday station in the western Antarctic Peninsula is one of the
largest observed anywhere over the last 50 years, yet the physical mechanisms driving this …

Climate observations made since the mid twentieth century reveal that the Antarctic
Peninsula is a region of extreme climate variability and change. The pattern of change is …

Here we present a new assessment of Antarctic climate change over the 21st century based
on data from the models that were developed as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on …

In recent decades, the warming in the Arctic has been much faster than in the rest of the
world, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Numerous studies report that the Arctic …